. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. DfAitr. for fivo cloths, or loss than two nintakns. One chjth will procuro a meusurc of rice just midcr 2 ll)s. April I2fh.—Ti|)pu was ])usy wiititii; letters when I went clown to him tliis niornin*^, hut lie ^ave nie a jj^uidc to show me the town. It is really a very lar<;e ])lacc; WQ walked for ahout an hour and a half through acres of rice, Indian corn, metammeh, «S:c., and did not ^o round a quarter of it. .Iud}j;ini; from the crops, the soil must
. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. DfAitr. for fivo cloths, or loss than two nintakns. One chjth will procuro a meusurc of rice just midcr 2 ll)s. April I2fh.—Ti|)pu was ])usy wiititii; letters when I went clown to him tliis niornin*^, hut lie ^ave nie a jj^uidc to show me the town. It is really a very lar<;e ])lacc; WQ walked for ahout an hour and a half through acres of rice, Indian corn, metammeh, «S:c., and did not ^o round a quarter of it. .Iud}j;ini; from the crops, the soil must he splendid. Ueturned for hreakfast, after which Salem Masudi came in, and ^ave me the details of the Nyassa row, in which he declares the Arahs were en- tirely to blame, so much so that 'i'ippu-'l'ib thouj^ht of seiulin^ men to take them as pris(jners to Zanzibar. It !ip|)pears that the Arabs borrowed some money from a merchant there, and promised to ])ay it back in six months, in ivory. 'Hiey never ])aid it, and he sent a clerk to them, whom they insulted and abused. This liapjjened several times, and at last the merchant went to the British Consul, Mr. Goodrich (?), who sent for the Arabs to come in, but they refused to do so. He sent three times altogether, and the last messenger they killed, so he went out with his men, and there was a lijjht. in which the Arabs were driven out. I asked Salem if he had any idea of how many people there are here ; he told me no one had. He said it was impossible to know, for they had no system like ours, which I explained to him. Supposing one man, he said, bought twenty slaves of the first class, these in a short time would each have slaves of their own, and those others—ad infinitum. No one took any note of the death of a slave; when one died they generally waited till nightfall, and then dragged him along the ground and threw him into the river, or left him oppo- site some one else's house. For one load of cloth you could buy at lea
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